Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Australian national cricket captains

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[edit] Australian national cricket captains

A complete list of every captain of the Australian cricket team, jguk 21:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • Yikes, this is a great list. Support. --Spangineer (háblame) 10:46, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support - a lot of work's gone into this and it's a fine example of a FL. - Ian 13:45, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support I so want to support, but, using the classic skin, the images in the first section stack sideways and flop over the top of the table. Also query whether it should be List of Australian national cricket captains. (And please can English national cricket captains be of the same standard!) -- ALoan (Talk) 16:13, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Responding in order: I don't know how to fix the pages - if a willing volunteer could help it would be appreciated. I don't think every "List" has to begin with the words of "List of", so I'm not inclined to lengthen the name in this case. I chose to improve this list to FL standard first as Ian's work on it made it less work to do so - once this one passes, I'll be looking at the other Test nations, starting with England, jguk 17:10, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
      • Pics now displaying properly in classic skin - I put them into a borderless table - Ian 12:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
        • Thanks; supporting now, but it is still more of a list of the captains rather than a full article on the captains (a proper article on Australian national cricket captains could be a featured article; this is just a list). -- ALoan (Talk) 10:24, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support, good list with pictures and an adequate lead. Phoenix2 17:12, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Strongly object. Displays horribly at 800x600 - there's no way the pictures of Benaud and Waugh could possibly fit except at a higher resolution. We shouldn't have articles - much less featured ones - that make us look incompetent in terms of web design by having four pictures in a line that just will not fit on many settings, when the pictures could be placed somewhere else on the page. In addition, the title is misleading. It isn't an article about Australian test captains over the years - it's a list of them, and should be labelled accordingly. Ambi 03:31, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • How is it horrible? Don't the images just push up against the table and the table condenses? That's what happens when I shrink my browser, anyway. To where do you suggest that the pictures be moved? Or do you think that those images should perhaps not be in the list? Also, I tend to agree with you on the name change. --Spangineer (háblame) 11:59, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Pics reduced slightly to cater for 800x600 resolution in deference to Ambi's comment. Looks better now. - Ian 12:46, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks muchly. Now support, although I still prefer the name change. Ambi 00:17, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support - and ALoan there is no way "English national cricket captains" can "be of the same standard" :-) Albatross2147 08:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support: wonderful, and I can live with the name. Good move to start with the Aussies! Filiocht | Blarneyman 07:34, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
  • support: looks great, though I would also prefer a name change. Tuf-Kat 18:06, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support: I was considering objecting on the basis that it didn't include the captains of the women's team(s), but given that I can only find two paragraphs on women's cricket in the whole of Wikipedia, that would seem a little petty. OpenToppedBus - Talk 15:04, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support - good list  =Nichalp (Talk)= 17:35, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - in terms of format, I prefer the lists for Bangladesh (which I tinkered with last week) and India and Sri Lanka (which seem to use the same style) - the markup in the Australian table uses a single row of cells for each capitain, with lots of <br>, whereas the other ones make use of "rowspan"/"colspan" to line things up properly. A side benefit is that the line numbers and captain's names are properly centred. This would not be too difficult, but a little time-consuming and fiddly, to fix. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:01, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Agree - the Asian ones also show who each series was played against which I always felt was lacking in the Australian list. They are definitely the way forward. - Ian ≡ talk 00:22, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)